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THE ENTERPRISE.
Official Or$in of Franklin County.
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LON. J. MtCONNKLL ami GKO. S. PHILLIPS,
Lditoiw and lTsorniKTon*.
Carnesville, (la., August 15, 1890.
EDITORIALLY PARAGRAPHED.
Tun business men of the country
will kill tlie force bill if it lie killed
at all.
The last issue of the Ellicrton Ga¬
zette is a newspaper after our own
heart. The people appreciate the
news.
The Sparta Ishmaclitc thinks that
the Eighth district will make a bad
mistake if she fails to send Judge
Lawson to congress.
Congressman Tillman, of South
Carolina, lias written a letter to his
Alliance constituency in which he op¬
poses the sub-treasury.
There is scarcely a doubt but that
Col. L. F. Livingston will oppose
Governor Gordon for the United
.states senatorship. If he should it
will be lively.
The republican papers arc calling
Blaine a free trader, and are accus-
i g him of advocating democratic
] inciplcs—but Blaine is the real
leader and will not down.
The Atlanta Constitution feels like
its course has been instrumental in
defeating the force bill. And who
knows but what it was the chief
cause of the abandonment?
ITon. Felix CouruT has announc¬
ed liis candidacy for speaker of the
next house. Clark Howell will have
to get a “move on” if ho keeps
abreast with the prominent alliancc-
rnan.
The Elberton Gazette uses funny
rules m figures. In subtracting it
s ays 2 from 3 leaves 2, and by this
method increases its friend’s majority
in an election 190 votes more than it
really is.
The republicans of the western
states declare that there must be a
reduction in the tariff and that the
McKinley bill must be defeated, or
tlie democrats will make tremcmen-
dous gains from republican ranks.
Census statistics show that the na¬
tional and state debts have decreased
more than $1,000,000,000 during the
last ten years. It is probable, how¬
ever, that municipal indebtedness lias
largely increased during that period.
•—Telegraph.
Two of the happiest men in the
state just now aro Col. Geo. N. Les¬
ter and Mr. Robt. T. Nesbitt, both of
Cobb county. The magnificent state
capital is no mean place to live at,
especially when the governmental
crib door is open.
There will be one day in the State
Fair at Macon in October next that,
will be designated National Day.
Georgia’s congressmen and senators
will all be there if possible so tlie
people of the Empire State of the
South may sec her representatives to¬
gether.
One of the saddest facts disclosed
by the recant census is the growth
of the cities at (he expense of (he
rural districts. We have some great
cities in the United States, and we
are justly proud of them, but nothing
can compensate the country for the
decline of its rural population.—Ma¬
con Telegraph.
It is announced that Col. I{. T.
Nesbitt, the next slate commissioner
of agriculture, will appoint as his
chief deputy lion. J. B. Ilunnicutt,
of Coweta, who was a candidate fur
the office of commissioner. Nesbitt
a«d Ilunnicutt will make a strong
team, and the agricultural office will
be safe in their hands.
The only two contests in the state
democratic nominating convention
were between Anderson and Lester
for the office of attorney-general, and
J. T. Henderson, It. T. Nesbitt and
J. B. Jliinnieutt for commissioner
agriculture. Lester was elected for
attorney-general, and Nesbitt
Commissioner of agriculture.
Why is the School Law Not Enforced?
It will be seen on examination of
the law given below that Franklin
county has been negligent in comply¬
ing with and getting the benefit of
Georgia’s school laws. The act was
passed in 1887 and amendod in minor
particulars in 1889. There is a pe¬
tition being circulated that we think,
but are not certain, that asks for the
very thing we already have. We
know that the petition asks that the
county be laid off into districts, which
is tlie important point in tlie law.
The law reads thus:
“That the county boards shall lay
off their counties into sub-school dis¬
tricts, in each of which sub-school
districts they shall establish one com¬
mon school each for the white and
colored races, where the population
of the two races is sufficient, which
schools shall be as near the centre of
the sub-school districts as can be con¬
veniently arranged, reference being
had to any school house already
erected and population of said rub-
school district, and to the location of
white and colored schools with regard
to contiguity; provided, however,
“That in such sub-school districts
where more than school is demanded,
then they may establish one or more
additional schools in such sub-school
district; and, provided, also,
“That whenever it becomes proper
to lay off new sub-school districts or
alter the boundaries of those already
laid off, the said board shall have full
power to make such changes as the
public necessities may require.”
The law is plain and unmistakable.
It says that the county board shall
lay off the county into districts and
establish schools as near the center as
possible—having regard for tlie school
houses already built. The law does
not say how large the districts must
he, but loaves that entirely with the
county board. Districts live miles
square are the size that other coun¬
ties have adopted, and which appear
to ho about correct. This would
cause those that lived on the extreme
lines of the district to walk only two
and a half miles to school, which is
not an unresonablo distance. This
districting plan should he promptly
adopted and a first-class school es¬
tablished in everyone of them as soon
as possible. The citizens of Putnam
county have recently laid off their
county into districts five miles square,
and built good school houses in each
district. They have been careful to
employ tlie best teachers they could
procure, and have also gone down
into their pockets and increased the
school fund, until now they are able
to sustain a good school in eacli dis¬
trict the entire year. It takes method
and business sense to establish good
schools just the same that it does to
establish a good system of farming,
or any other occupation. The scien¬
tific farmer with bis large body of
land lying together is far more suc¬
cessful than the gouger who has his
patches scattered here and there with
no particular pride in any of them.
The same is true with the schools.
If there is a little thing established
on every other man’s farm that may
have a vacant cabin and each settle¬
ment satisfying its own peculiar little
whims, there will bo no special in¬
terest taken in any of them, and the
result will be that scarcely any benefit
is derived. But on the other hand,
let the county build in each district
a largo and substantial house, with as
many as three departments at least,
in oaah house, and fill them with boys
and girls, young men and young wo¬
men, employ teachers that know how
to stir the ambition of their pupils,
causing a friendly spirit of rivalry and
emulation to pervade the whole
school. Then the county will see
such educational progress that won¬
der will be that the system was not
established sooner.
Docs it Mean Felton for Congress?
A special from Rome, Ga., to the
Constitution of August 12lh says:
“The Tribune of to-morrow will pub¬
lish a cal! for a mass meeting of the
Jeffersonian democrats of Floyd
county, to be held in the court house
on Saturday, to select a candidate for
congress to represent all classes. It
is understood that the meeting will
extend the nomination to Dr. W. Ii.
Felton, who, it is believed, will enter
the field.”
The Force Bill Abandoned.
Senator Quay, a leading republi¬
can, introduced a resolution last
Tuesday which provides that no bus¬
iness other than the tariff bill, appro¬
priation bills, etc., shall be consid¬
ered at this session of congress. This
means that the force bill will bo
abandoned.
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Cnr Next Congressman.
There is considerable doubt about
any particular man getting the nom¬
ination for congress in tMa district.
It is known to every one that it will
bo almost impossible for any one of
the three candidates to go into the
convention with enough votes to
nominate him. Colley lias 10 votes,
and Lawson and Olive 8 each, with
three counties yet to act. Olive’s
friends claim Oconee, which would
give him two more, making 10; then
llanck’s four and Morgan’s two arc
claimed by the friends of both Law-
son and Colley, but it is"generally be¬
lieved that Lawson’s chances to se¬
cure them arc the better. If Law-
son should carry both Hancock and
Morgan he will go in the convention
with 14 votes, and giving Oconee to
Olive would make him and Colley 10
each. Should Colley carry Morgan
and secure her two, and Lawson
I laneoek with her four it would give
them 12 each. Should Colley carry
all three of the counties yet to act he
would go into the convention with
enough to secure the nomination, but
iie is more likely to lose all throe than
to carry ail three. From the best in¬
formation obtainable at this time the
vote will stand thus when the con¬
vention meets: Olive, 10; Colley, 10;
Lawson, 14.
To the Citizens of Franklin County.
It was through the influence of my
friends that I announced myself as a
eondidatc for representative, and I
thank them most heartily for their
endorsement of me as their choice.
But after a careful investigation of
the situation I find there would be
confusion and division in the Alliance
which would be hurtful to the order.
Being a member of the order I should
not do anything that would cause a
division among the membership, for
in union there is strength and in di¬
vision death. Believing the Farm¬
ers’ Alliance is formed on principles
of equity and justice, and that har¬
mony should prevail among the mem¬
bers, and finding if I continue in the
race I would have to antagonize the
action of the County Alliance (as re¬
lates to the indication) which might
prove hurtful to the order, and not
wishing to do anything that would be
likely to injure the order, I therefore
withdraw from the race, believing my
chance was good to be elected, from
the best information I could got. It
is for the sake of harmony in the Al¬
liance that I withdraw.
Again thanking my friends for the
interest they have manifested, 1 re¬
main your fellow citizens,
J. T. IIolbeooic.
Locking After the Railroad.
Superintendent Berkley and lion.
Dope Barrow, of the Richmond and
Danville company, arc here looking
after the completion of tlie Carncs-
villo railroad. Wc cannot give any
particulars before going to
The result of their trip will be given
in these columns next week.
Call Meeting.
There will be a call meeting of the
Franklin County Alliance on the first
Wednesday in September next. The
business is important. Delegates of
the last regular meeting will be con¬
sidered members. Hope we will have
a full turn out. Aug. 8, 1890.
T.A. McFarland, President.
BOILED DOWN.
General News Condensed and Put in
Short Paragraphs.
—Athens is having a hotel sensa¬
tion.
—Cardinal Newman died of pneu¬
monia in London on the 11th inst.
—The Atlanta Journal has receiv¬
ed and delivered its lion to the Gross
Zoo.
—Kansas City’s population is 25,-
000 less than it was two years ago.
Southern cities don’t do this way.
—The State Agricultural Society
met in Lagrange the 12th. There is
doubt as to who will be elected pres¬
ident.
—Atlanta lias named her elephant
“Clio,” in honor of the wife of Capt.
Joyner, chief of the Atlanta fire de¬
partment.
-Dr. Talmago ^ lectured at the At-
. lanta Chautauqua „ Salt ^ Springs .
out at
on Wednesday night, llis
was “The School for Scandal.”
,, ( apt. K. E. 1 aik, of Bibb, , .
spoken of as a suitable person to
coed lion. W. J. Nor then as
dent of the State Agricultural So-
ciety. J ’
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lorpn H, Looney’s Collin.
CARNESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.
“The school boom in and around
Carnesville is wonderful,” said a gen¬
tleman in our hearing a week ago.
But it is not wonderful. On the
contrary, it would be a wonder if so
intelligent and energetic a people
would not boom such an enterprise.
As one of our great orators said,
“auspicious omens cheer us.” Every¬
thing around us indicates that the
school which is to open on the first
Monday in October will be a success
from the very outset. We have a
genial clime, a salubrious atmosphere,
and water as cold and pure as ever
bubbled in wells or gushed from
springs on our common earth. Wc
have society as good as is to be found
in all the country. We have two
excellent newspapers, and three
churches with their refining and en¬
nobling influence. Our business men
are clever, obliging, and patterns of
energy, enterprise, and success. The
prospective school lias all these ad¬
vantages to begin with, and it seems
that it will be its own fault if it be
not a success.
Now in behalf of the school wo can
only promise, that all will be done
for the advancement of pupils that
scholarship, experience, tact, and en¬
ergy can do. All that wc do and all
that wo say in the school-room shall
be done and said with a view to the
best and highest interests of the pu¬
pil. Ills mental and moral welfare
shall be our continual aim, and noth¬
ing shall bo left undone that in our
judgment will conduce to those ends.
In our methods of educating we shall
to the best of our ability bo impres¬
sive and thorough. While wo shall
try to avoid the tempting danger of
doing too much for the student, there¬
by lessening his necessary self-reli¬
ance, wc shall very certainly avoid
that other and worse danger of doing
nothing for him, thereby conducing
to Ids discouragement and our own
lazy ease. In discipline we shall be
as mild as may be, but as rigorous as
must be. In our opening lecture we
shall take pains to impress our rules
and to foreshadow our whole course
of discipline. Let every pupil and
patron attend the first morning.
THE PAST.
It was Emerson who boasted that
he had no past on his back. By this,
of course, he meant that he was un¬
influenced by tradition or prejudice.
But liis statement was untrue. No
man can live and move and learn and
think among men, and get rid of the
past. The past has gone into every
man and become part and parcel of
his being, and it is there to stay. It
is to-day influencing each individual
life, whether physical, intellectual, or
moral. Like the atmosphere its pres¬
sure may be imperceptible, but like
the atmosphere its pressure is never¬
theless upon us. And as the phys¬
ical man breathes and lives by tlie
surrounding air, so the mental and
moral man feeds upon the influences
of his past hie. It was in the full
tide of divine inspiration that the
wise man said, “God roquircth that
which is past.”
What Mr. Leslie Stephen aptly
calls “social tissue” is nothing more
nor less than the spirit of every age
moving through all the ages, as prog¬
ress advances in the world. The
hues of the tissue undergo a gradual
change, else there were no progress,
but the threads of the tissue arc not
destroyed. As the loom revolves
and the warp moves and the shuttle
flies and Ike woof Is filled in by the
strokes of the batten we gradually
change the hues and texture of the
web. But we cannot, like Fenclopo,
take out at night the threads wc have
woven in during the day. No, in¬
deed! So every human being not
only carries the past on his back, but
within him for ever and ever.
The readers of The Enterprise
have all heard of the fine gentleman
and great statesman, W. E. Glad¬
stone. Perhaps the following facts
in reference to his family may not be
amiss: His wife is a daughter of Lord
Blau tyre of Scotland. Iiis eldest
son, W. II. Gladstone, is an eminent
lawyer in London. The second son,
Rev. S. E, Gladstone, is Vicar of
I Jo warden on his father’s estate in
England. Tlie third son, Ilenry, is
;R I no lw J ionrth, cr L ? Herbert, is ° member at t V Cl,Ua oi :
Parliament for North Leeds, and one
his father’s ablest supporters in
polities. The eldest daughter is the
wife of 3Ir. Wickham, head master
of Eton. The second is the wife of
Rev. Mr. Drew. The youngest, who
is single and very handsome, is now
IVineipal of Wid.-rhr.m Female Col-
leg- schools near in Cambridge, England. one From of the finest
tlie above
it may be seen that all of this noble
family are workers.
LIBEL FUR DIVORCE.
Georgia, Franklin County.
J, A. Reed Libel for Divorce
vs. in Franklin Superior
Annie llced. Court, March Term,
181)0.
To Annied flood, defendant: You
are hereby notified and required to be
and appear at the next term of the
Superior Court of said county, to be
held in and for said county on the
fourth and Monday there in September plain¬ next,
then to answer the
tiff’s petition for divorce in said court.
As in default thereof the court will
proceed as to justice shall appertain.
Witness the Honorable N. L.
Hutchins, Judge of said court. This
July 10, 1890. J. M. Phillips,
Clerk Superior Court.
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Of my old friends who want either
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repaired will find the old saddler,
D. M. LOONEY,
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Col. Thos. Morris office, whoro ho
will be glad to see you all and work
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Yours, as ever, D. M. Loonky.
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or J. A. NEESE,
8-34. Principal.
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CARNESVILLE, - - GEORGIA.
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